Category Archives: Year 2021 C

01 Honor the Mystery! That is the essential orientation, and we spend our entire life learning what it requires– and prohibits. It means abandoning the idea of God, for one thing. Treating the Mystery as though it is God is to fail to honor the Mystery. God has those Ten Commandments, and his (sic) ChosenContinue reading “July 17, 2021”

01 Sit quietly and observe what happens in the silence. Just watch, listen. Without engagement– without being hooked, kidnapped, shanghaied, carried off, with emotions aroused and looking for a fight, or a pizza, or anything in between, or beyond. If you find yourself responding to something arising, reflect on that. Ask the questions that begContinue reading “July 16, 2021”

01 Suffering and sex, money and power are the four most over-rated things in culture and civilization. All are good/necessary in their time and place. Not one warrants the emphasis it receives. Living in the service of any of them disrupts balance and harmony and introduces chaos and discord in the lives of their servant-victims.Continue reading “July 15, 2021”

01 We don’t know what we need to hear until we hear it. We don’t know what we need to see until we see it. We don’t know what we need to do until we do it. Which puts us at the mercy of the Mystery quite beyond us to lead us, guide us, callContinue reading “July 13, 2021”

01 Being healthy is an end in itself. Being healthy in the service of ends worthy of us is the best we can hope for in terms of fulfillment and satisfaction, although we may have nothing “to show for it.” Having something “to show for it,” in terms of wealth, power, prestige, standing, admiration ofContinue reading “July 12, 2021”

01 Our choices got us where we are. Our choices will get us where we are going. Who knows where they are going? Who knew we were going where we are? What are choices good for, really? The primary choice is Yes or No. How do we know? Upon what does our choice between YesContinue reading “July 11, 2021”

01 What are the forces of destabilization in your life? In what way do they stir up fear, desire, anger? What is interfering with your balance and harmony? In what way does that stir up fear, desire, anger? This photograph of a barn on Mormon Row, restores my stability and brings balance and harmony, peaceContinue reading “July 10, 2021”

01 The worst people kill the best people. And when the best people stand up for what is truly best and kill the worst people, as in World War II, 75 years or so later it is like the worst people won that war. And the Civil war never ended. It has to be re-foughtContinue reading “July 09, 2021”

01 My 40.5 years of service as a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA) notwithstanding, people occasionally wonder if I am a Christian, and sometimes say, “How can you consider yourself to be a Christian?” My stock reply goes like this: “If you measure your Christianity by the Westminster Confession of Faith, including the LargerContinue reading “July 08, 2021”

01 The worst of times call for living from our Center as much as any times. The Center is the Source of Life and Light and Being in every time, through all times. The more practiced we are in finding and living from the Center, the better able we will be to meet our circumstances,Continue reading “July 07, 2021”

01 There is balance and harmony. There is resistance and assistance. There is what we do to pay the bills, and there is what we pay the bills to do. Three pairs of choices. How we work out the ratios among the three tells the tale. The tale is the one we are spinning withContinue reading “July 05, 2021”

01 If I were writing the script, on Judgment Day we would have to forgive ourselves. And live with what we have done and failed to do throughout forever. I would call it The Reckoning. Or, maybe, Coming Clean. We would have to make it right with ourselves. It would be heaven and it wouldContinue reading “July 02, 2021”